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The Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course has now been out for more than 6 months at Scrum.org. As one of the first few trainers who wanted to teach this course when it came out, I find it is a great way to combine the Scrum framework with Kanban as a strategy to deliver value to your customer.

DevOps is all over the place nowadays. The toolset is exploding. Companies are offering a large variety of products to suit the needs of customers.

I have an important favor to ask to Scrum practitioners who are asking their team to commit themselves to their sprint backlog at sprint planning.

The intention of this blog post is to test the content of an upcoming book that I am writing on Leanpub called 

The intention of this blog post is to test the content of an upcoming book that I am writing on Leanpub called So You Want To Be A Hero: Soft skills at the core of Agile leadership. While I agree that Agile is eating the world, I believe we have to revisit our understanding of leadership to support Agile. To quote Denning in his article, "this kind of leadership is beyond the capabilities of the lumbering industrial giants of the 20th Century."

After almost a year, I am now publishing the 4th iteration of my upcoming book So You Want To Be A Hero : Soft skills at the core of Agile software development.

According to the Scrum guide, sprint retrospectives are "an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint."

In his book Good to Great, author Jim Collins asks the reader:

When reading the role of the Scrum Master in the Scrum guide, one of the core competencies is to facilitate meetings.

After only one month since the release of my second iteration, I am now publishing the third iteration of my upcoming book on soft skills for Agile teams.

A team that I work with decided one day to improve the general mood in the team. A member of the team (David) bought the Snakes & Ladders board game for the team.

I am now publishing a second iteration of my upcoming book on soft skills for Agile teams.

I’d like to offer to readers of this blog a first glimpse of my upcoming book “So You Want to Be A Hero – Soft skills at the core of Agile software development”.

I have found that coaching managers is a different approach than with Scrum teams. While you are (most of the time) involved directly with the Scrum Team as a Scrum Master, managers are less accessible.

Your plan. It will change anyway. Your detailed architecture. It should emerge. Your code. It will be refactored. Your document. It doesn’t compile anyway.

I work in the public sector as an Agile coach. One of the question I often get asked is how to estimate the size of a new project, or a new delivery, as we need to determine a budget before executing it.

Back to basics

One of the important event in Agile this year seems to be an argument around Test Driven Development (TDD). More precisely, high profile personalities in our industry debated against the statement "TDD is dead".

As a Agile coach, I refer to a few tools to help me think about where my Scrum teams should go next on their path to Agility.